Suzy Spotleson of RiverCrest Golf Club and Preserve claimed
the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia’s 118th Amateur
Championship with a 5 and 4 victory over Trenton Country Club’s Katie Edelblut
in the scheduled 36-hole final Friday at Aronimink Golf Club.
Spotleson cruised through the match-play bracket, opening
with a 5 and 4 victory over Merion Golf Club veteran Liz Haines, a two-time
winner of this event, downing Merion’s Catherine Elliott, the former Notre Dame
and University of Pennsylvania standout, 3 and 2, and then cruising to a 7 and
5 decision over Allison Long of Honeybrook Golf Club in the semifinals.
It was very nearly an all-Edelblut semifinal on the other
side of the bracket, but Burlington Country Club’s Kelsey Sloan prevented that
with a nail-biting victory over Katie’s sister Kellie Edelblut in 22 holes in
the quarterfinals. Katie Edelblut then defeated Sloan, 3 and 2, to advance to
the meeting with Spotleson in the final.
Elliott pulled off an upset in the first round of
championship-flight play when she knocked off Whitford Country Club’s Cara
Basso, the qualifying medalist, 2-up. Basso, a recent graduate of Villa Maria
Academy and the PIAA Class AA champion as a sophomore in 2012, is headed for
Penn State.
A.K. Frazier of Gulph Mills Golf Club took first-flight
honors with a 6 and 5 victory over fellow Gulph Mills member Ellen Miller in
Friday’s scheduled 18-hole final.
Frazier reached the semifinals with a 6 and 5 victory over
Overbrook Golf Club’s Karen McFadden.
Nicoll Keeney of DuPont Country Club was the second-flight
winner after claiming a 1-up decision over Mary McGuiness of Tavistock Country
Club in a thriller that went to the 18th hole.
Merion’s Katrina Ogilby won two matches to reach the
second-flight semis before falling, 3 and 2, to McGuiness.
My Golf Notebook in the Daily Times Saturday print edition features Aronimink Golf Club's Max Siegfried, who has been a fixture on Golf Association of Philadelphia junior leaderboards all summer,, and a report on reigning Daily Times Player of the Year, Radnor senior Brynn Walker, earning a trip to the PGA Junior Championship in Miramont, Texas in a qualifier this week at Applecross Country Club. The Golf Notebook is also posted on delcotimes.com.
My Golf Notebook in the Daily Times Saturday print edition features Aronimink Golf Club's Max Siegfried, who has been a fixture on Golf Association of Philadelphia junior leaderboards all summer,, and a report on reigning Daily Times Player of the Year, Radnor senior Brynn Walker, earning a trip to the PGA Junior Championship in Miramont, Texas in a qualifier this week at Applecross Country Club. The Golf Notebook is also posted on delcotimes.com.
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